Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

servis@purdue.edu writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(')
 > appear as question marks(?).  This problem as been around since bo and
 > since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly.  When I look at the
 > source it shows question marks as well.  The funny thing is that some
 > of the apostrophes so up fine while other don't.  Has anyone else seen
 > this?  What should I look for? My fonts are set as Helvetica(Adobe) for
 > variable width and Courier(Adobe) for fixed width.  I have tried other
 > fonts including True Type ones and it doesn't help. 

I believe this is caused by a broken editor, e.g. Microsoft Word with
`Smart Quotes' enabled, that produces non-standard HTML.  IOW, there's 
really nothing you can do to fix this short of writing to the author
and asking them to fix their code.

Noel